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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3275791, member: 19463&quot;]My view in the 1950&#039;s was that it was foolish to pay more than face value for a coin.&nbsp; I collected from circulation and sold/traded duplicates to the local coin store.&nbsp; My parents were divorced when I was eight and my mother left me alone while she was at work (that was acceptable then).&nbsp; To keep me occupied, she loaned me $50 so I could buy a bag of cents from the local vending machine company and take the 99% I did not want to the bank in rolls.&nbsp; Rarely, I got bags of higher denominations.&nbsp; One day I noticed a dish of low end ancients at the coin store and it was all over for US coins. When I was old enough to get a job, I stopped looking at coins by the bag and spent my funds on ancients.&nbsp; I had absolutely no problem justifying spending a dollar or two on an ancient but never understood buying legal tender over face.&nbsp;&nbsp; I still have a few I found.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]864989[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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